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25 | they/them

[creativespark]

Darren Black, All Black Everything

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Works and Loves," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[kii-tty]

[godisafujoshi]

Anthony Bourdain

[deathandmysticism]

Amulets and superstitions, 1930

[gunner-93]

Stanislaw Szukalski. (1893-1987)

Polish sculptor

[hackaya-deactivated20170416]

[sandmandaddy69]

David Deweerdt

[thetidemice]

weird animal flipbooks i made

[queer-as-city-folk]

The entire world yearns for the collapse of America and it's empire

[lesbiantahani]

nintendo DS at ninajirachi, 2026, sydney enmore theatre

[illusoryfem]

Rothko, 1964

[retroscifiart]

David Cronenberg and William S Burroughs on the set of The Naked Lunch (1991)

[fuskida]

Attitude 2015 | photography by Ivan Milojevic

[realpeoplefiction]

strange decanters by etienne meneau

[lilja4ever]

Jingyi Li, Chinese. 1999/2026. New Heaven 03, filet lace and leather.

[binkloves]

We built this country with you on our backs.

Painting by Titus Kaphar

[rederiswrites]

lovely story from a friend today.

[dicaeopolis]

[rederiswrites]

Look, this post has been wildly more popular than I thought it deserved, apparently at least in part because "don't burden others; be independent" is far more ingrained in people than I realized. So here's the thing: society works when people help each other. Helping others gives people a chance to know each other, and gives them an investment in the people they help. Helping creates bonds. People enjoy helping, and you are doing a good by letting them help you if they so wish.

Offer help; accept help. You will be a part of creating a helping culture. Which, incidentally, weakens capitalism and the fractionation between people that benefits those who would use us.